Brian Mueller
@briansmueller.bsky.social
"Democracy's Think Tank: The Institute for Policy Studies & Progressive Foreign Policy" (Penn Press, 2021). Next: 1980s Central American Peace Movement.
https://brian-mueller.com/
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Episode 3 of our SECOLAS audiodocumentary on the Cuban Missile Crisis is live! In this episode, we look at the global repercussions of the Cuban Revolution, analyzing Cuba’s relations with the United States, Latin America, the Soviet Union, and the Global South. (1/2) soundcloud.com/historiaspod...
Episode III - Cuba in the Global Cold War
In this episode, Renata Keller and Dustin Walcher look at the global repercussions of the Cuban Revolution, analyzing Cuba’s relations with the United States, Latin America, the Soviet Union, and the
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November 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Episode 3 of our SECOLAS audiodocumentary on the Cuban Missile Crisis is live! In this episode, we look at the global repercussions of the Cuban Revolution, analyzing Cuba’s relations with the United States, Latin America, the Soviet Union, and the Global South. (1/2) soundcloud.com/historiaspod...
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Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Had a terrific talk w Julia Fournier about her dissertation research into American childcare infrastructure (or lack thereof) in the late 20thC! Tune in here or wherever you find your podcasts!
In 1971 the U.S. nearly enacted a universal childcare policy, and the lack of affordable childcare has remained a problem ever since. Our latest #HagleyHistoryHangout features a social and political history of U.S. childcare 1970-1996 w PhD cand Julia Fournier. Join us www.hagley.org/research/his...
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Had a terrific talk w Julia Fournier about her dissertation research into American childcare infrastructure (or lack thereof) in the late 20thC! Tune in here or wherever you find your podcasts!
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The Immigration and Ethnic History Society offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history.
More details here:
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More details here:
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Awards Overview
Visit the post for more.
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October 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The Immigration and Ethnic History Society offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history.
More details here:
iehs.org/awards/?fbcl...
More details here:
iehs.org/awards/?fbcl...
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In today’s Guardian with @kcarterjackson.bsky.social, explaining why teach-ins (like the one we’re holding Sunday!) are a vital part of activism.
Why we’re holding a teach-in about American history at the Smithsonian | Kellie Carter Jackson and Nicole Hemmer
Podcasters, professors, journalists and ordinary citizens will gather in Washington as the Trump regime wages war on history
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October 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
In today’s Guardian with @kcarterjackson.bsky.social, explaining why teach-ins (like the one we’re holding Sunday!) are a vital part of activism.
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Let's dive down to the local level for today's anniversary thread. Today's excerpt from The Fate of the Americas comes from a discovery I made in Bolivia's Foreign Ministry archive. Bolivia's ambassador to Colombia sent back a bunch of reports about how people in Bogotá... #History🗃️ (1/14)
October 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Let's dive down to the local level for today's anniversary thread. Today's excerpt from The Fate of the Americas comes from a discovery I made in Bolivia's Foreign Ministry archive. Bolivia's ambassador to Colombia sent back a bunch of reports about how people in Bogotá... #History🗃️ (1/14)
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In the first piece of our "Comps Series" Summer Perritt explains just what comps are: "'Comps,' can be confusing and intimidating for graduate students, the first step to conquering Comps, and the fear they elicit, is to understand what they are, what they are designed to test, and how they work."
What are Comps?
Comprehensive Exams, or ‘Comps,’ can be confusing and intimidating for graduate students, but the first step to conquering Comps, and the fear they elicit, is to understand what they ar…
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October 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
In the first piece of our "Comps Series" Summer Perritt explains just what comps are: "'Comps,' can be confusing and intimidating for graduate students, the first step to conquering Comps, and the fear they elicit, is to understand what they are, what they are designed to test, and how they work."
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My book is officially here! Today (well tomorrow, actually) is the release date for The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941-2000. If you like the art check out Shakti Kroopkin, whose painting Journey Into Freedom graces the cover. shaktikroopkin.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
My book is officially here! Today (well tomorrow, actually) is the release date for The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941-2000. If you like the art check out Shakti Kroopkin, whose painting Journey Into Freedom graces the cover. shaktikroopkin.com
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Please join us!
Be sure to check out this upcoming virtual event featuring a round table with Dr. @emmaamador.bsky.social and her new book, The Politics of Care Work.
@drsarahmac.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social
@drsarahmac.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Please join us!
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While I am document dumping, I am posting many of the files from my forthcoming book project on the politics of development and human rights during the Suharto era, including East Timor/Timor Leste.
www.bradleyrsimpson.com/indonesia-an...
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October 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
While I am document dumping, I am posting many of the files from my forthcoming book project on the politics of development and human rights during the Suharto era, including East Timor/Timor Leste.
www.bradleyrsimpson.com/indonesia-an...
www.bradleyrsimpson.com/indonesia-an...
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One week left to apply for these awesome @shafrhistorians.bsky.social awards - including the Hogan Language Fellowship. I’m a previous Hogan winner & I have the honor of chairing the Hogan committee this year so apply or tell your PhD students to apply! #SHAFR #skystorians 🗃️
🚨 Reminder: SHAFR January awards deadline is Oct 15! Apply now for the Bernath Lecture Prize, Williams Emerging Scholar Grant, Hogan Language Fellowship & grad dissertation grants. Details: tinyurl.com/5n6e6h8z
#SHAFR #HistoryAwards #AcademicSky #skystorians
#SHAFR #HistoryAwards #AcademicSky #skystorians
October 15 Deadline - Apply for SHAFR Awards
www.shafr.org
October 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
One week left to apply for these awesome @shafrhistorians.bsky.social awards - including the Hogan Language Fellowship. I’m a previous Hogan winner & I have the honor of chairing the Hogan committee this year so apply or tell your PhD students to apply! #SHAFR #skystorians 🗃️
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CRACKED FOUNDATIONS by @m-r-glass.bsky.social (out this week!) examines how debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today’s inequalities. Listen to Glass's conversation with Jenna Pittman on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to learn more! newbooksnetwork.com/cracked-foun...
October 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
CRACKED FOUNDATIONS by @m-r-glass.bsky.social (out this week!) examines how debt and speculation financed the suburban American dream and led to today’s inequalities. Listen to Glass's conversation with Jenna Pittman on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to learn more! newbooksnetwork.com/cracked-foun...
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“CBS first raised the ire of modern conservatives in the early 1950s, when it stood up to Sen. Joseph McCarthy at the height of his anticommunist witch hunts.” Great history by @ajbauer.bsky.social time.com/7318570/cbs-...
CBS Has Been in Conservative Sights for Decades
It was once deemed the "Communist Broadcasting System" by conservative activists.
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October 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“CBS first raised the ire of modern conservatives in the early 1950s, when it stood up to Sen. Joseph McCarthy at the height of his anticommunist witch hunts.” Great history by @ajbauer.bsky.social time.com/7318570/cbs-...
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Come for my discussion of revisionist history, stay for my description of some of the controversies of the summer of 2019 which will make you long for the past.
What Is Revisionist History?
What is revisionist history--and is it dangerous?
contingentmagazine.org
September 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Come for my discussion of revisionist history, stay for my description of some of the controversies of the summer of 2019 which will make you long for the past.
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So excited to celebrate the launch of Rituals of Migration later this week!
Looking forward to launching "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social Sept 19, 7pm w/ @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social &co. 🎉🎉🎉
Join us this Thursday to celebrate the launch of the latest book in the NYU Press Glucksman Irish Diaspora series, Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move. We can't wait to see you all at Ireland House this week 🎉 @nyupress.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
So excited to celebrate the launch of Rituals of Migration later this week!
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The Immigration and Ethnic History Society is looking for the next editor of the Journal of American and Ethnic History. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. More details below 👇🏽
***The Immigration and Ethnic History Society is looking for a new editor for the Journal of American Ethnic History***
September 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The Immigration and Ethnic History Society is looking for the next editor of the Journal of American and Ethnic History. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. More details below 👇🏽
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Just got my author copy of The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War!! It feels unreal to hold something in my hands that I've been working on for more than a decade 🗃️ #History
September 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Just got my author copy of The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War!! It feels unreal to hold something in my hands that I've been working on for more than a decade 🗃️ #History
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Fantastic resource for historians: a spreadsheet of NARA's digitized microfilm, with links to the files in the Archives catalog. May it help you as much as it has helped me.
www.archives.gov/files/colleg...
www.archives.gov/files/colleg...
www.archives.gov
August 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Fantastic resource for historians: a spreadsheet of NARA's digitized microfilm, with links to the files in the Archives catalog. May it help you as much as it has helped me.
www.archives.gov/files/colleg...
www.archives.gov/files/colleg...
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Guatemala’s Historical Archive of the National Police, "long associated with the struggle for transitional justice and historical memory" has become "a casualty of intense government hostility," suffering from drastically reduced funding & restrictions on public access, per @nsarchive.bsky.social 🗃️
Invisible, Silenced, and All but Abandoned: The Guatemalan Historical Archive of the National Police on Its 20th Anniversary
Washington, D.C., August 20, 2025 - Twenty years ago, a group of human rights investigators in Guatemala stumbled upon an enormous archive containing millions of historical records belonging to the co...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
August 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Guatemala’s Historical Archive of the National Police, "long associated with the struggle for transitional justice and historical memory" has become "a casualty of intense government hostility," suffering from drastically reduced funding & restrictions on public access, per @nsarchive.bsky.social 🗃️
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This week Historians At The Movies watches the single greatest movie ever made. Join us on Prime Video this Sunday, August 17 at 8pm EST for OVER THE TOP.
Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
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Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
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Over the Top (1987) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic Trailers
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August 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This week Historians At The Movies watches the single greatest movie ever made. Join us on Prime Video this Sunday, August 17 at 8pm EST for OVER THE TOP.
Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
youtu.be/xFtHW2hXNh0?...
Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
youtu.be/xFtHW2hXNh0?...
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Parents, be vigilant against PragerU instructional materials in your kids classrooms! It’s an extremist outfit masquerading as an educational nonprofit. It’s a far right wing response to PBS kid’s programming, it is propaganda designed to appeal to children and careless or bigoted educators. Beware!
August 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Parents, be vigilant against PragerU instructional materials in your kids classrooms! It’s an extremist outfit masquerading as an educational nonprofit. It’s a far right wing response to PBS kid’s programming, it is propaganda designed to appeal to children and careless or bigoted educators. Beware!
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***Job Opportunity***
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights, Haverford College
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights, Haverford College
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights - Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States job with Haverford College | 37870353
Haverford college seeks two Tenure-Track Assistant Professors of
Peace, Justice, and Human Rights.
Haverford College invites applications for...
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August 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
***Job Opportunity***
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights, Haverford College
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Peace, Justice, and Human Rights, Haverford College
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Coming this December: a great addition to Columbia's Global America series.
Agrarian Superpower | Columbia University Press
The United States’s superpower status is often associated with its industrial, financial, and military might. Yet its global power after the Second World W... | CUP
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August 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Coming this December: a great addition to Columbia's Global America series.
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I’m at the gorgeous Getty Museum’s Queer Lens exhibit. Imagine my surprise to see former @ips-dc.org Fellow Rita Mae Brown in the exhibit. She worked at my office in the 1970s. Read her FBI surveillance story below.😂
August 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I’m at the gorgeous Getty Museum’s Queer Lens exhibit. Imagine my surprise to see former @ips-dc.org Fellow Rita Mae Brown in the exhibit. She worked at my office in the 1970s. Read her FBI surveillance story below.😂
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The 2026 SHAFR Summer Institute call for papers is out! What an awesome *fully funded* opportunity for grad students and early career scholars! www.shafr.org/index.php?op... 🗃️ @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @cmcknichols.bsky.social #historians
CFP- SHAFR Summer Institute 2026
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July 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The 2026 SHAFR Summer Institute call for papers is out! What an awesome *fully funded* opportunity for grad students and early career scholars! www.shafr.org/index.php?op... 🗃️ @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @cmcknichols.bsky.social #historians